This isn'r the latest copy. I have made some slight changes and one was making the extra petal smaller. I wanted to show a falling leaf and tie in the type with the image because to me they lacked a bit...

It would be great to use the Fibonnaci sequence but I can never find a simple article to explain how to apply for designing. I start to hear the math info and my eyes glaze over. I have a template for...

Photoshop is a raster program. You want a vector program, like Corel Draw, Illustrator, or Freehand.

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I actually created the art in your first link: http://www.hatchillustration.com/tec..._mvagusta.html
and I do use only photoshop for line work. It gives me a bit more of a hand done feel and is more natural to work in than Illustrator. The key to keeping the lines crisp is to make sure you draw in Paths, keep the size and resolution fairly high and to stoke the paths in a pure brush with no softness to it. I hope this helps!

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Great illustrations, Jim!
I've been trying to find some quality tutorials and resources about technical illustration, mainly isometric drawings. I tried drawing an isometric vehicle using orthographic projections and SSR, but can't seem to skew the images to get the right perspective. Not as easy as putting a cube together

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Attack of the zombie threads this weekend. Thanks for catching that PD.

Ever wonder when (of maybe it's already happened) somebody's going to question an old post of a deceased member?

Hmm... you know, for a lot of the stuff that we get over and over during the years (the vector/raster workflow is a great example) we could probably leave posthumous postings that would work fine. Maybe if Kool put on his thinking zomberro, he could figure out a way adding this as a forum feature.

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We had some sort of server disaster way back that wiped out the first 50,000 posts. However I know the very first post was from the founder Allen welcoming people to his brand new forum. The second post was the Mac vs PC debate